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{twd} Fresh Mango Bread

Mangoes are my nemesis. Not in the eating department–I love them, especially with lime and chili powder. It’s the cutting and prepping that get me. I tend to get injured. I know in my head all the different techniques out there. The cutting off the sides and then scoring the mango into the size and shape you want, etc. The cutting off the bottom and then using serrated peeler to take off the skin. I even bought a mango splitter.

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, Fresh Mango Bread, required one mango cubed to yield 2 cups. I was so hoping my mango would yield two cups so I wouldn’t have to face the second mango. I was doubtful, my mango was not large. And yes, I was right. My mango only gave me a little over one cup. I had to deal with a second mango.

Wrangling mangoes was worth it! Yum. The mango bread was delicious. In addition to the mangoes, the bread {and it’s bread in the sense that banana bread is bread} is spiced with ginger and flavored with lime zest. I added lime oil to boost the lime flavor.

The bread was delicious on its own, but it was also delicious with mango slices and ice cream. I did not make a special flavor this week. I did think about making ginger ice cream or mango frozen yogurt. My freezer is a bit full of ice cream right now. Even though I tend to make only half-recipes, that’s still a pint (plus more if there are a lot of mix-ins). I used leftover Crème Fraîche Ice Cream.

Thank you to Kelly of Baking with the Boys for choosing Fresh Mango Bread as we bake our way through Dorie Greenspan’s Baking…From My Home to Yours. This is one of the recipes I’ve been wanting to bake. If you want the recipe, please visit Kelly’s blog.

I just knew you wouldn’t disappoint. Ice Cream it is!! Maybe you should have an ice cream round up featuring the contents of your freezer…. he he he. I love ice cream too. I love the beautiful slices of mango. I didn’t think of that and I even had 1/2 mango remaining. Beautiful work, again. Wasn’t it delicious?
AmyRuth

I have an idea. You need to open an ice cream shop/bread bakery. So I’ll come and get a danish bread and a loaf of bread and some croissants, and then I’ll get an ice cream cone with four different flavors. Deal?

Good talk.

🙂

Seriously, It is amazing! Everything you make! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED this bread! Seriously LOVED it! I made it is as French Toast… to DIE for! I think it would be GREAT with that creme fraiche ice cream!

Oh, these photos are so beautiful…yes, the bread is gorgeous, but the way you styled it all with the bright yellow mango and that lovely scoop of ice cream…wow. Over the top. Great job…wish I had some left to try it with ice cream. Never thought of that before.

Oh my word, those mango slices are gorgeous! Now I want to run out and get a mango slicer. Great job on your bread – it looks gorgeous! Every time I see your TWD posts I wish I could make room in my freezer to make some ice cream.

I’m very glad that you emerged the victor in the pink vs. mango showdown, and that the bread was worth the risk. After messing with my one huge mango (and not knowing any techniques or having any special equipment) I won’t go into fresh mango territory in the future without a bit of trepidation. That extra lime boost sounds delicious.

Wonderful presentation! Mangoes are so messy. I just roll up my sleeve and dig into them. Kinda like I do my avocados. In the end, it all works out. I had a harder time mixing it all together! Great job as always.

Looks de-lish! I often look at your TWD blog late at night after getting kids in bed and such and it always makes me wish 1)I wasn’t already out of whatever we made that week, 2)that I had me some ice cream right now! 😉

I’m with you, this one was worth the mango wrestling! I bet it was delicious with the creme fraiche ice cream! Adding lime oil is a great idea. I doubled up on the zest, but I bet the oil gave a deeper flavor.

Mmm. I’ve never tried creme fraiche ice cream. Sounds really good. I’ve never bought a mango before, so I had an interesting time trying to figure out how to deal with it. It turned out okay, though (and I had to do two mangoes, too.)